Blanket

Name: Blanket
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781628922653
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By Kara Thompson

Series: Object Lessons

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Blanket by Kara Thompson is a thoughtful exploration of a seemingly ordinary object that holds extraordinary significance. Part cultural critique, part memoir, the book delves into the many roles blankets play—providing comfort from birth to death, shielding moments of illness, mourning, and intimacy. Thompson reveals how blankets appear across art, film, geology, disasters, battlefields, and resistance, transforming them into powerful symbols of inheritance, belonging, and personal stories.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, especially those who enjoy cultural criticism, memoir, and exploring everyday objects through new, meaningful lenses. It suits fans of reflective, thought-provoking non-fiction and design or art enthusiasts curious about symbolism and personal narrative.

Blanket explores covers in everyday contexts, "New World" colonial encounters, contemporary art, emerging economies, and collecting practices to show how the blanket is not just an object of utility, but one that provides lessons in metaphor, viruses, and secrets.

Blanket explores covers in everyday contexts, “New World” colonial encounters, contemporary art, emerging economies, and collecting practices to show how the blanket is not just an object of utility, but one that provides lessons in metaphor, viruses, and secrets.

Description

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures.

Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere—film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home—and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Critics praise Blanket for its sensitive, detailed analysis and innovative perspective. The Seattle Book Review lauds Thompson’s brilliant examination of blankets within artworks and their connection to themes like colonialism and survival, intertwined with her personal narrative. PopMatters recognises the book as a fine addition to the Object Lessons series, offering rich starting points for further thought. Reviews highlight Thompson’s skill in unveiling unexpected associations within a simple yet profound subject.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781628922653

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 September 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 122.0mm

Height: 164.0mm

Weight: 180g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Kara Thompson Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Series: Object Lessons

About the Author

Kara Thompson is an Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at the College of William and Mary, USA. Her essays have appeared in Tine House, Avidly, The Philosophical Salon, and The Atlantic.